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Best Practice: Separate Directories
lukecorden
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10 Aug 13 7:15 am

Best Practice: Separate Directories

Hi

I've just watched https://www.affilorama.com/site-building ... usekeeping and it is a useful video on good housekeeping practices for keeping your website directories in order. I have a question though.

The advice is to "Keep your images in an images directory, your CSS in a CSS directory, your articles in an appropriately named directory, and so on"

My question is this:

If I affect these changes by creating the relevant directories in filezilla will WP auto detect them when I work in WP or will I have to upload all my posts, images and CSS files via the FTP platform?

If the latter is the case then I can see myself getting in all kinds of trouble. Images and posts fine but even the term upload css file is frightening to me. If I do upload a css file via ftp for example will WP recognize it a implement those changes automatically? The Images I guess will go into the WP media library, the posts into the 'all posts' section (?) and then it just gets confusing.

Advice is welcome. I'd like to start implementing this straight off the bat with my new website.

Many thanks.

LC
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cecille.l
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12 Aug 13 10:44 am

 Hi Luke,

"If I affect these changes by creating the relevant directories in filezilla will WP auto detect them when I work in WP or will I have to upload all my posts, images and CSS files via the FTP platform?"


The suggestions on the video you referred to is for non-Wordpress sites or sites created with other web-building software like Dreamweaver or XSitePro. In Wordpress, the CSS must be in the theme's folder (themes/themename/stylesheet.css). Otherwise, the theme will not work. As for the images, they are automatically uploaded by Wordpress under the 'uploads' directory and are subdivided into months (and years).

If you're using Wordpress, then there is no need to follow the suggestion on the video as Wordpress is already following the same.

Hope that helps. Have good day!
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lukecorden
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13 Aug 13 9:26 pm

 Thanks Cecille - that's cleared that up nicely AND saved me a headache!

LC
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cecille.l
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14 Aug 13 12:27 pm

 Hi Luke,

You're welcome! :)
Please let us know if you have further inquiries. All the best!
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